Hot Pockets' new spokesman Snoop Dogg: Sellout or marketing genius?

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Not to cloud the reputation of Bagel Bites or Pizza Rolls, but when it comes to frozen foods, there just no competing with the street cred of a toasty Hot Pocket—at least now that Snoop Dogg Lion is involved. The rapper teamed up with the microwavable turnover for a parody of his 2004 hit, “Drop it Like it’s Hot,” now retitled “Pocket Like it’s Hot.” But for fans of the hip-hop icon, could the move ruin his own credibility?

Another advertising effort, this one from the always boundary-pushing Axe, is also being called into question. PRNewser ponders whether the body wash’s latest effort, in which it supports “showerpooling” as a means of saving water, is overly provocative—or “provocative with a purpose?”

Tuesday is also Boss’s Day. To mark the occasion, Poynter highlights 10 secrets our leaders of the free world office never tell us.

Bosses at a financial services company were none too pleased with one of its employee’s biggest online secrets. Gawker exposed the employee, Michael Brutsch, as “Violentacrez,” one of the biggest trolls on social news site Reddit. In response, the company fired him.